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Intel will fire thousands of researchers and workers
  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    In update to http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/14554/intel-future-cpus-will-be-more-power-efficient-but-not-faster/p1

    Intel is preparing a significant round of job cuts across business units this spring, according to multiple sources inside the company familiar with its plans.

    The cutbacks will reduce employment in some parts of the business by double-digit percentages, according to Intel insiders, amounting to thousands of job cuts across the company by the end of the year. The planned downsizing could begin soon after Intel reports its first-quarter financial results Tuesday, though sources say timing and specifics remain fluid.

    http://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/index.ssf/2016/04/intel_planning_for_thousands_o_1.html

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  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    Intel is laying off 12,000 employees globally, or about 11 percent of its workforce, the company said in a statement today.

    http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/INTC/1917925298x0x886662/6D73A0D5-A8CD-48A2-96E7-5234880B6304/Press_Release_Q1_2016_restructuring_-_FINAL.pdf

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    Our strategy itself is about transforming Intel from a PC company to a company that powers the cloud and billions of smart, connected computing devices.

    All is clear now.

    https://newsroom.intel.com/editorials/brian-krzanich-our-strategy-and-the-future-of-intel/

  • alcomposeralcomposer

    So they are about to develop 'new' technology, with less developers. Great. (sarcasm)

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    Capitalist corporations develop and make only something that bring good profits.

    Today clouds are extremely profitable thing.

  • alcomposeralcomposer

    Today clouds tomorrow rainbows. Even the cloud needs a CPU.

  • karlkarl

    Intel cuts Atom chips, basically giving up on the smartphone and tablet markets Intel is refocusing on 'products that deliver higher returns.'

    Managers are so simple minded. Throwing away everything but the one business where they expect the highest short term profits. Only to learn a little later that since every company expects the highest profits from the same few over-hyped topics, competition there is fierce, and profits in the long run not quite as high as expected.

    So now Intel goes the IBM way of rendering itself more and more irrelevant...

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    @karl

    It seems that articles are partly done by confused journalists

    A new lineup of upcoming Pentium and Celeron chips called Apollo Lake will succeed the existing Atom X5 Cherry Trail line of chips, said Navin Shenoy, senior vice president and general manager of Intel’s Client Computing Group, during a keynote.

    This is that they called "cancellation of x5". And "Apollo Lake platform is the next generation of Atom-based notebook SoCs"

    "The company plans to pitch OEMs on Pentium and Celeron chips related to its new Apollo Lake platform (based on Goldmont) as a solution for tablets and low-end PCs.

    Sofia and Broxton

    I am not sure anyone actually had hopes here.

    All it seems like another attempt to bury Atom name (Intel made multiple ones already).

    Intel will still offer good integrated entry level solutions.

    Btw, issue with x5 and x7 usage is solely on the hands of their managers and marketers. They made big progress with BayTail with design help and cheap prices. After this they started optimizing profits getting baytail based things sales and multiply it by how much more profit they get. Did not work.

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

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    Some Apollo lake details

    • 30 percent better CPU performance
    • 30 percent better graphics performance (with Intel Gen9 graphics, means 4K 10bit HEVC support)
    • Support for DDR3L, LPDDR3, and LPDDR4 memory
    • 15 percent longer battery life
    • Support for USB Type-C
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  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

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    Atom T5500 and T5700 chips are based on Intel’s new Goldmont architecture (just like Apollo Lake), and features Intel Gen9 low-power graphcis with support for hardware-accelerated 4K video encoding and decoding in HEVC, H.264, and VP8.

    New Atom chips outperform an Atom x5-Z8500 Cherry Trail processor by as much as 50 percent.

    Signs of big management struggle I sense.

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  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    More Atoms info

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  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    Intel is bringing back desktop "Atom" chips with Apollo Lake. The Pentium J4205, Celeron J3355 and J3455 will feature a 10W TDP, a substantial increase over the 6W Braswell chips.

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    They want profits:

    Today, we are on a path to be a $60 billion Company. Our gross margin is very consistently between 60% to 65%.

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